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Skyphos, (stemless cup) with Presentation Scene

Skyphos, (stemless cup) with Presentation Scene

540 - 530 B.C.

Painter of the Nicosia Olpe

Greek, Attic, active c. 530-505 B.C.

Greek, Attica

Ceramic
5 13/16 x 11 1/4 in. (14.7 x 28.5 cm)
Diam.: 8 3/8 in.
Gift of the Norman and Amelia Davis Classical Collection
65.155
Provenance: (Said by Borowski to have come from an "Athenian collector"); [Elie Borowski, Basel, Switzerland, by 1965]; purchased from Borowski by Seattle Art Museum (with funds donated by Norman and Amelia Davis), Seattle, 4 November 1965
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryWalla Walla, Washington, Olin Art Gallery, Whitman College, The Aegean: Egyptian Through Roman, December 4, 1977 - January 26, 1978
Published ReferencesWilson, Patricia Boyd, Home Forum, in The Christian Science Monitor, 11/14/1969, illus.

Bliquez, Lawrence J. Classical Vases and Containers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1985, no. 10, p. 15


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